Chun Mo Rionnag:
It was meh for me despite having a unique premise. I uprated it for the second couple but I was badly let down by "Between Us".
Interestingly, I liked Between Us a bit better. I loved Boun and Prem together. I enjoy sports related stories, so I could be biased that way. But yeah, I think I remember some emotionally messy parts.
the plot is not as complicated as the description and the Zendaya plot is only at the start. I’m now at episode 4 and so far, it’s been mostly about Krom’s and Fueng’s friendship/relationship. In my opinion, it’s a simple romcom done wellJojo:
Re: City of Stars - That's good to hear. I'll keep it on my PTW list!
RiqueXinw:
So I woke up to being tagged in a comment by a friend imploring me to watch Unknown the series. I was hesitant to watch this early on based on the story description but given how well this person's comment laid out the happenings in the first episode I have now been convinced to watch. Apparently it is the same director and writer who were involved in the We Best Love series, My Tooth Your Love series, and Stay By My Side series. This convinced me even more to watch. I don't know how I am going to watch all these series but that is a technicality which I will be ignoring so let the watching overload begin :)
I like the sound of this one so adding to my long PTW list! I've enjoyed many BLs from Taiwan and hopefully this one will be just as good.
Fighting! haha. You can do it!
American Fan:
It was meh for me despite having a unique premise. I uprated it for the second couple but I was badly let down by "Between Us".
I actually like BounPrem but maybe i had high expectations because i waited for so long for them to have their own project. They kind of let me down with Even Sun. By the time Between Us came along i was hype and i think i gave the show grace because i liked the pairing lol. I don't think it was really bad, just okay.
The Sign 6/10
I delayed giving my final thoughts because, "Be nice....I am finding it!"
There is this quote that says, "It's all shits and giggles until someone giggles and shits", well in this case bad writing giggled and the series turned to shit. If I was to look at this series solely based on production it would have gotten 1000/10; the cinematography and CGI are without a doubt excellent. The acting was also very good and the fight scenes were done well and every little detail was accounted for. The pilot episode as well as the four episodes after were attention grabbing and intriguing. Then how the hell does this series turn out to be a let down? In my opinion the writers bit off more than they could chew and choked, possibly even vomited. There is this preoccupation with the folklore element and crime investigation that the romance aspect was overshadowed and marginalised; it amazed me that even after the NC scenes were one would expect some form of affectionate atmosphere around the characters, there was non and the series dove right back into the previously mention preoccupations. Now if the during these conflicts there was still palpable feelings surrounding the couple then sure why not nothing like a crime fighting-mystery solving couple. Now this ending was anticlimactic and what pissed me off more than ever is that NC scene that they placed in it. For it was like "So even though throughout there was no romance here lets us throw you a bone in the finale", no thanks, frankly this cheapened NC scenes. Anyways at least I am not bitter. That is all I will say, I will save the rest of the rant.
The Sign has finally aired the final episode! Who's seen it?
I totally agree. I wish we'd had 30 more minutes. I needed more closure. I needed at least 5 minutes of them being happy together. I needed an ending that didn't fall flat. I needed the build up of the search for Tharn to pay off... and it didn't. I wish they had solved the Montree issue and given it more time in the last episode, and left this episode to the supernatural issue.
I do have to say that Billy hard carried this episode because the way he screamed when he realized Tharn was gone, got me. I was tearing up along with him for a good 10 minutes. Gap who plays Yai got me with the crying scenes too. That man needs to lead his own show, asap, he was so endearing and such a scene stealer.
From what I heard, this show has several different endings, and when I heard that it annoyed me because it felt like a cop out and like the writers failed to commit to a story. After watching the YT ending, it feels like that was exactly what it was, a cop out. Now I'm tempted to search for the other endings, to see if any of those was better. I was also hoping the YT version would have Saint's cameo but no such luck.
7.5/10 - Overall, I don't want to rate it too low because it did many things well. I don't want to disregard the good stuff due to a mediocre last episode. Hopefully we get more show's in this vein, because I really do enjoy them. Despite it's flaws, The Sign was truly a breath of fresh air.
Simi_Tutu:
